absurd

In a sentence

Six example sentences with absurd, each labelled with its topic.

• Camus begins with the absurd, the collision between our demand for reasons and a universe that offers none.

  Philosophy

• Beckett staged the absurd directly, leaving two men on an empty road waiting for someone who never comes.

  Literature

• The director films office routine as the absurd, endless forms stamped by workers who cannot say what any of it accomplishes.

  Movies

• Existential therapists help clients face the absurd, the sense that life comes with no given meaning, without sliding into despair.

  Psychology

• Dada artists made the absurd their subject after the war, hanging nonsense poems and found objects where portraits used to go.

  Art

• The indie game dwells in the absurd, sending its hero to file paperwork that nobody will ever read in an empty office.

  Gaming

Found in these word lists

• Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)Authoritative
• GRE 3000+ word list (widely used study list)Recognized

Each source is a published word list that contains absurd. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

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